I will not be celebrating Patrick's Day this year. All I can think about are the 796 babies and small children who died in Tuam, Co. Galway. I have no shame in admitting, after I read their names and ages, I sat down and wept .... and not only because some of the children bear my family name. I am baffled and bewildered that there should even be a question or a debate about the need to identify their poor little bodies, and return them to their families to be buried with dignity and respect. In every other imaginable national disaster there would be no question about the cost. There would be no question about what is the right thing to do. I am beyond tired of politicians using the words 'tragic' and 'shocking'. We can debate the 'issue' forever (and that phrase alone makes my blood boil, these babies are human beings not an 'issue') but if we all quiet down for just five minutes the answer is obvious. After 9/11, heroic people came together and made every effort to return the bodies of loved ones to their families. What in the name of all that is good and true is the difference between the innocents who died in 9/11 and the innocents who died in Tuam? They were both the victims of acts of terror which gave their lives no thought or consideration.It does not matter if one crime was committed in America and the other committed in a small town in Ireland. What matters is that the innocents who died in America were treated with dignity and respect. Let us do the same in Ireland.